Elite intellectuals on the right found a lot to agree on in the run-up to President Donald Trump’s election. They agreed that “wokeness” was bad. They agreed that Trump was the better choice than Kamala Harris. And they agreed that the system was in need of radical change. That consensus helped usher Trump into the White House again — but it’s over now.
As my colleague Zack Beauchamp explains, multiple feuds are now fracturing the right’s intellectual elite into increasingly hostile factions. And at the heart of those feuds is a bigger truth: It’s much easier to unite in opposition than it is in governance.
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—Patrick Reis, senior editor
